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Show k- H'trriliirtfltof Woman. Ni-w Yr Recorder. "Tho hardiness of women always impresses im-presses me at tho opera." iaid a well-known well-known business man. "My wife is a good deal of a musical enthusiast, and I ul ways attend the opera live or six times on her account. I cannot say Hint I net my particular jlasure out of it, us Wagner's music is f:ir above nie. But the atmosphere of the opera hoiivo is rclined, tho surrounding r beautiful and the lights decidedly attractive. at-tractive. Accordingly, I enjoy it almost al-most ns much as if I knew whtit it was nil about. "But I cannot understand how the women can wear such low gowns and lliuisy drapery and still escape pneumonia. pneu-monia. They wear furs, thick walking walking gowns, boots, gaiters and mulls all day long, and at uiglit they go to the opera dud in a bodice that is ht-tlo ht-tlo more than a suggestion of covering and Kit cerenely amid draughts that would make a "man shiver in spite of his substantial clothes. At least twenty men in tho audience on Wednesday night pulled on their overcoats during I lie, performance, but the ladies sat in the boxes and stalls without suggesting for a minute that they needed wraps. Fashion is a wonderful thing in these days, as it was in the days that are gone." |